Colonel Chernetsev arranged for Shulka to use the NC84 transport aircraft (Level 2).
This is not for the sake of speed. Shulka is recovering from his injuries, so there is not much point in reaching the destination quickly... It seems so at the moment, although it is not actually the case.
Transport aircraft are arranged for safety reasons.
It takes a whole day to take the train, and there are many people on the train along the way. Once the whereabouts are leaked, it is easy to be assassinated by spies again.
If the German army received the news, they might even send bombers to bomb the train.
It's different with a transport plane.
On the one hand, the enemy did not have enough time to react due to the short time. More importantly, the sky above Moscow was quite safe at this time, and the transport aircraft transporting to the rear would basically not be disturbed. Moreover, Colonel Chernetsev also arranged for two fighter jets to escort Shulka.
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This surprised Shulka... You must know that the last time Zhukov arranged a trip for Shulka, there was no fighter escort, but a colonel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs could easily do it.
The plane landed directly in Stalingrad like last time.
It was the instructor who came to pick up Shulka.
Shulka was not surprised by this, because Colonel Chernetsev told Shulka before the plane took off that he would notify the troops ten minutes before the plane arrived.
This was of course done out of confidentiality. Ten minutes before arrival, even if the German spies received this message, they would not have time to react.
The instructor hugged Shulka warmly and said with a smile: "I heard that you can't get used to staying in the hospital?"
"Yes!" Shulka replied: "The Germans don't want me to live in this world!"
"Of course!" the instructor replied with a smile: "They should have done this a long time ago!"
Sulka couldn't help but be startled when the instructor got on the car. It was an American Jeep.
"Is it an American product?" Shulka asked doubtfully as he got on the Jeep.
"Yes, how do you know this?" the instructor asked.
"Oh!" Shulka hurriedly defended: "I guess, I heard that the Americans are going to send us things, right?"
The instructor nodded and replied: "That's not the only thing they gave me!"
As he said that, he stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the training ground.
The location was the same location where the 1st Guards Tank Brigade had previously trained. As soon as the jeep drove into the training ground, cheers could be heard from all around, and the soldiers took off their hats and waved to Shulka one by one.
"They didn't know you were returning to the team!" the instructor explained, "I didn't tell them that!"
The jeep stopped in front of a bunch of tanks, and the soldiers of the third company shouted and surrounded it from all directions:
"Look, Comrade Company Commander is back!"
"Comrade Second Lieutenant, are your injuries healed?
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Shulka responded to the soldiers while looking at the tanks on the training ground, and then looked at the instructor in confusion.
Of course, this was actually Shulka's pretense, and he knew what was going on.
The instructor raised his head, took Wotga out of his arms and took a sip, then handed it to Shulka and said: "As you said, the Americans want to send us something...this is it!"
American Lend-Lease Act, American m3 medium tank, double turret design, the British called it the "General Grant" tank.
There are also "Matilda" and "Valentine" tanks from the UK.
It's no wonder that the 1st Guards Tank Brigade was transferred back to Stalingrad, they were used to test the newly arrived tanks.
Going into details, Shulka believes that first of all, the temperature has dropped sharply recently, down to more than 30 degrees below zero. At the same time, reinforcements from the Far Eastern Front arrived in Moscow, which relieved Moscow's defense.
In this case, the 1st Guards Tank Brigade has room to be mobilized back.
Secondly, testing this batch of tanks is of great significance to the Soviet Union.
This is not only a matter of them being put into the battlefield soon, but also a matter of testing and feedback on the assistance from the United States and Britain...the quality is poor, whether it can adapt to the Soviet battlefield, and whether it can play a certain role on the battlefield.
All require an elite force to assess.
(Only elite troops can identify problems and be persuasive. For example, the 1st Guards Tank Brigade has won many battles with Soviet-style equipment, but they believe that the British and American equipment are insufficient and even failed on the battlefield)
"Go back to your posts, you bastards!" A British colonel yelled in English: "Do you think this is playing a game? This is fighting. I think you must not know what fighting is.
...With your current situation, the Germans will beat the shit out of you!"
The Soviet army translator beside him translated these words intact.
The soldiers did not move, and some spat on the ground.
Shulka looked at the instructor in confusion.
The instructor shrugged and replied: "That's a British instructor, named Stephen... You know, after they give us these equipment, they also want to teach us how to use it, so they sent a team of consultants, including British and Americans.
, but most of them are British!”
Then the instructor added: "It's interesting, isn't it? Most of the equipment is American, but the British teach us how to use it!"
Shulka knew why.
Because the British have more experience fighting the German army... to be precise, they should have combat experience against the Italian army. On the desert battlefield, their main opponents are the Italians, and the German army only has a small part.
On the other hand, the US military supplied a large amount of equipment to the British army, so the British army did have more experience in using it.
But this does not mean that these experiences are correct, otherwise they should not have been completely defeated by Rommel in Africa.
Of course, the British would not admit this. Just like this instructor, they still shouted arrogantly at the Soviet soldiers.
Shulka didn't intend to argue with the instructor. He raised his head to the soldiers and said, "Go! After all, he is here to teach us how to fight the Germans!"
The soldier responded, and then reluctantly returned to the training ground to train.
At this time, a man emerged from a "General Grant" tank and waved to Shulka. It took Shulka a while to recognize that it was Fedosiev...
Seeing tank soldiers wearing Soviet military uniforms in American tanks, it really feels a bit inconsistent.
This seemed to be impossible. At this time, the Soviet military industry was moving to the rear and had not fully resumed production, so tanks were urgently needed.
The problem is...Shurka doesn't know how effective these tanks can be on the battlefield.
"Move your butts!" At this time, the British instructor shouted again: "Follow behind the tank, you idiots, unless you think your face is thicker than the armor of the tank, you are finished!"